He-ate-us, Day 7

[cleolinda]

No, for real, that's the traditional name for the Hannibal hiatus. Pun game too strong in this fandom, what can I say.

So, personal update: the medication adjustment seems to have evened out, I hope, and I'm mostly done with the other project I was having to work on. I notice that, in my life, as a near-infallible rule, if I say "I'm gonna do

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Hannibal Rising

[asuka4eva]

Point being, I'm going to read the book

Re: Hannibal Rising

[cleolinda]

Heh. In a good way or a bad way?

Re: Hannibal Rising

[asuka4eva]

In a scale of 1 to Will Graham's luck: it's awful.

[elbales]

This eyeshadow thing is the coolest idea evarr. You are badass. Just sayin'.

[cleolinda]

Hee, thanks. Well, I'm the one who told real-life Freddie about Aromaleigh and how good it was, but she's the one who was outgoing enough to bounce up to them on Twitter and be like U MAKE US PRETTY COLORS? And that's why we had Ravenstag and Tattler first, and then Kristen watched the show herself and it snowballed from there. It's just made me really happy that you can look at each color and see exactly where it came from on the show, that it's not just something random with a quote pasted on. At risk of sounding silly, I like that they kind of tell a story, like the way that Entrapment is kind of the reverse of Ripper and Abattoir, and that Bone Arena connects "Apéritif" to "Shiizakana," and "Gotcha" has a "lurking" copper. It's been creative in a way that makes me feel like I was still able to engage with the show somehow, even while I couldn't recap.

[elbales]

Not silly at all. It's great that you're trying all kinds of creative stuff. Why limit yourself?

p.s. So hey the OMG DON'T HURT CLEO wishes are belated, but they're there. Dear Universe, plz to stop with the hurting Cleo, we hates it forever.

[cleolinda]

Aaaaand this morning my mother's car wouldn't start. And here I was hoping that the tribulations would be limited to the month of May.

[ext_2130248]

Wouldn't people be afraid to wear makeup called 'entrapment'? LOL

[cleolinda]

Well, we already decided against a color called "Blind" for that reason; Entrapment seemed metaphorical enough to be okay. Also, I considered suggesting "Cruelty" for something else at one point, and then realized that was a terrible name for a vegan cruelty-free cosmetic.

[vermouth1991]

Besides, how much of a cosmetics nerd would it have to be to take one look at someone's eyeshadow and blurt out, "Hey, you're wearing the Hannibal-inspired series from Aromaleigh!"

[cleolinda]

Heh. Well, in retrospect, we realized that's kind of how Cygnus works--you can wear it, you can even tell people what it's called, and they'll still have no idea that it was based on That Painting. Much the way That Painting itself flew under the radar as long as it did.

I get the problem with names, though--is it something you want to put near your eyes? "Blind" is a fantastic theme for an Alana/finale-inspired color; you can get all kinds of thematic irony out of "Cruelty." They're just terrible, terrible names for something that close to your eyeballs. In fact, we considered "Hook" and "Trap" for "Entrapment," and it may be that the same principle applies there as well. "Ripper" and "Abattoir" are kind of pushing it as it is, but I figure those are in the Urban Decay tradition of I Can't Believe You Named an Eyeshadow "Roach." If it doesn't trigger my infamous eye squick, I figure it's okay.

[ivy_b]

I don't live in the States. but my sister is going to be with my G in NY next week, so I ordered like 17 eye shadow samples, then when my mom is going in October, all the eye shadows will be out and I'll know more or less what I want- I have it all planned out, this is my design.

Ouch, sorry about your house being possessed and doing its best to inconvenience you, I hope everything works out soon.

Finally finished reading 'Silence', I enjoyed it, but it took me months to read it, I wasn't in a reading mood. Now I'm debating whether to read 'Hannibal' or not, knowing about the problematic plot points. I'm not going to touch 'Hannibal Rising', so I'll just wait for your recap or something, I did see a few minutes from the movie (my brother was watching it in the living-room and I stayed for a bit out of morbid curiosity).

I can't believe it's only been 7 days, how are we going to survive this He-Ate-Us? *sobs*

[cleolinda]

Hannibal is... interesting. Like the movie, the Florence section is the best part. That said, the Mason Verger parts are 100x worse than even what made it into the movie. Hannibal Rising... I don't know if that'll end up being more or less upsetting than the sex-trafficker rape-iness towards the end of the movie; I don't know how much of that is actually in the book. I must be spoiled by the show, because that got to me more than it probably would have a few years ago. My major problem with the entire existence of the thing is that great line in whichever book it was, "Nothing happened to me. I happened," which is then completely undone by a Nazis Ate My Sister back story.

(That's what I used to do when I could better afford it--order a whole mess of samples, then test them one by one For Science and decide which ones I wanted full sizes of.)

[ivy_b]

I prefer having Hannibal as a secondary, enigmatic character, I'm not sure if I'll like a book that's from his POV. I have so many issues with 'Hannibal', despite not having read it yet. I was surprised to see Paul Krendler in 'Silence' and to see that he's just your average douche bureaucrat (like Kade Purnell) and not a misogynistic, corrupt pig that he was in the 'Hannibal' movie. I also am not looking forward to how OTT EVUL Mason will be in the novel, especially if you say it's worse than the movie. I feel like they made everyone OTT bad so that Hannibal looks good and you can root for him against these ridiculous characters. But that's just my impression from summaries, since I haven't read the book. I have it, maybe I'll give it a try this summer during the He-Ate-Us.

I love that Silence of the Lambs quote: ""Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can’t reduce me to a set of influences. You’ve give up good and evil behaviorism, Officer Starling. You’ve got everybody in moral dignity pants-nothing is ever

[spiderine]

I love that Silence of the Lambs quote: ""Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can’t reduce me to a set of influences. You’ve give up good and evil behaviorism, Officer Starling. You’ve got everybody in moral dignity pants-nothing is ever anybody’s fault. Look at me, Officer Starling. Can you stand and say I’m evil? Am I evil, Officer Starling?"

So yeah, trying to explain Hannibal and give him a tragic backstory and revenge subplot really ruins what made him such a fascinating and indecipherable villain in the first place. Plys making him an anti-hero, I hate that.

Quoting this extensively because I agree absolutely. This articulates exactly what I think but says it better than I could. :)

[cmdr_zoom]

*coos over pretty copper, then goes back and reads and winces at mishaps*

Please, take care. There's no rush.

[cleolinda]

Heh, thanks. I really wanted to have "Mukozuke" up by now, but some things are going on around here (a few I didn't even mention) that have made it difficult to be productive. I'm just trying to write for my own sake at this point and not worry about when something "should" have been done.

I can't wait to get my hands on that copper. It ought to be compatible with a number of the other colors, and I really enjoy that they're fun to look at even if you don't care about makeup per se.